The young think that failure is the Siberian end o... -James Baldwin

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

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James Baldwin Quotes to Explore

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly....
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up....
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even lab...
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, ...
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them....
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually....
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopte...
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it....
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all....
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them....

Failure Quotes to Explore

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an o...
I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure....
Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life ...
I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments wh...
We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the wo...
I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think....
I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way...
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and somethi...
As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure....
Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keep...